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Have you noticed? Late in this NFL season, a sophomoric sense of humor seems to be creeping into the staid, conservative league. Consider: •The fun began with St. Louis Coach Jeff Fisher last Sunday during the coin toss preceding the Rams' game with Washington. Fisher sent out the six players St. Louis acquired in trade for quarterback Robert Griffin III. You kids call this "trolling," while my generation would say Fisher was saying "In yo' face!" •New England TE Ron Gronkowski posed with kittens for ESPN the Magazine. Coach Bill Belichick "trolled" Gronk by showing the pics to start a team meeting. As far as I know, there were no...

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Have you noticed?
Late in this NFL season, a sophomoric sense of humor seems to be creeping into the staid, conservative league. Consider:
•The fun began with St. Louis Coach Jeff Fisher last Sunday during the coin toss preceding the Rams' game with...

Tinseltown is up to its old tricks. In hopes of Oscar glory, Hollywood is saving some of its biggest movies for the year's final weeks. Yet these titles, stars and subjects do raise expectations that, after a disappointing summer, some memorable movies...

For Disney fans watching the Grammy Awards on Sunday, they got an extra treat as the first full-length trailer for Walt Disney Pictures' "Maleficent" premiered during the telecast.
The movie starring Angelina Jolie in the titular role of the...

They're as busy as halflings at the WETA works down in New Zealand. That doesn't really work, does it? Hobbits being sedentary pipe smokers. But sets are coming together and Peter Jackson is doing his part to drum up interest in the two-part adaptation of R

At least one actor cast in Peter Jackson's two-part adaptation of J.R. R. Tolkein's “The Hobbit” has found Middle Earth is a bit too much. Rob Kazinsky, cast as the young, fearful dwarf Fili, has departed, the production confirms. Not sure if he h

For anybody who notes that Jack Black's films with no name directors often turn out awful and those he does with the likes of Richard Linklater and Michel Gondry (We'll skip over Peter Jackson) aren't half bad, the news that Black has signed to join Michael W

Peter Jackson is producing a remake of the WWII actioner “The Dam Busters,” and he'd hired the great British polymath, writer, wit, chat show favorite Stephen Fry to script it. Well, since he's already on the payroll, why not make use of him in New

The movie, in 2005, caught all of them pretty much at their peak. When it bombed, the recovery seems to have taken years. Cameron Crowe has had a career since the failure of “Elizabethtown.” He's finally doing another film, “We Bought a Zoo.&

You knew with a name like Benedict Cumberbatch (a terrific TV Sherlock Holmes) that it would be hard for Peter Jackson to resist casting him somewhere in “The Hobbit.” He's landed the voice role of Smaug. Yes. You remember what/who Smaug is. And Lu

What “Harry Potter” has been to the British character actor classes, “The Hobbit” will be to Down Under second bananas. Barry Humphries has been added to the cast of Peter Jackson's New Zealand Shire. He will play the Goblin King. Inspi

Peter Jackson's going all out, releasing shots of his actors in their new Middle Earth guises left and right. OK, he's just releasing shots of what the dwarves will look like in this much-more dwarf friendly than his LOTR Trilogy film. Impressive. Oin and Gloi

There are reasons to go to Comic-Con. Hugh Jackman will make a “Surprise” appearance on behalf of “Real Steel.” But perhaps there are fewer reasons to go than in recent years. And one reason certainly WON'T be to get a whiff of Peter Ja

“I don’t think there’s such a thing as a performance-capture or motion-capture actor,” Andy Serkis says. “Any actor can do it. I’ve just embraced it, is all.” Indeed he has. The 47-year-old English actor still makes a mark in the occasional “face time” role, s

It's been years since I've seen the documentary on these guys, seemingly railroaded into prison for crimes they did not commit. No way you could watch the 1996 film “Paradise Lost” and not feel you were watching a damning expose of prejudice, ignor

Posted in various places around Isleworth during the Tavistock Cup are boards listing the 54 major championships won by members of either Isleworth or Lake Nona. Now tackle this question: Who won the first, and what was it?? Answer: Isleworth member Jan Stephe

This high profile/garbage director 3D Three Musketeers that has seemed to have one casting announcement a day for the past month now has its swordfighting villain. Orlando Bloom, no slouch with a sword and with a decade of period pieces and adventure epics beh

He got tired of production staff referring to him as “Peter Jackson pre-Lasik.” No word on who will take over as director of the $150 million prequel to The Lord of the Rings. Del Toro is still working on the screenplays for the two-part Hobbit. W

With the news that delays, delays and more delays have chased Guillermo del Toro out of Middle Earth (almost, he's still scripting it, he thinks) comes the loud speculation about who will take over Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings prequel. Who will direct it,